COMMENT IHEEM Sector pulls together for daunting challenge


JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF HEALTHCARE ENGINEERING AND ESTATE MANAGEMENT


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The past month’s news has – understandably – been dominated by the impact that the global coronavirus outbreak has had on daily lives, both in the UK and in many other countries – each of which has addressed the challenges differently. Parts of the media in the UK have criticised some of the approaches and policies the UK authorities have adopted to stem cases – for instance questioning why more individuals have not been tested, and why, in contrast to some other countries, there has been such a shortage of both PPE and testing kits available. Each Thursday evening, many readers will have joined their families and neighbours to applaud the commitment, selflessness, and dedication, of the doctors, nurses, and care staff who have so admirably looked after patients of all ages afflicted by a virus whose severity was perhaps significantly underestimated in the early days of its spread. The praise is richly deserved, but it should not be forgotten that to ensure that patients can be optimally looked after in a clean, fit-for- purpose, and comfortable, environment, estates and facilities personnel at all levels and in all disciplines – from estates directors to healthcare engineers, porters, catering teams, and cleaners – have been working equally hard ‘behind the scenes’.


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Brandon Medical responds to COVID-19 demand


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Brandon Medical is a UK manufacturer, supplier, and installer of reliable examination lights suitable for emergency hospitals, minor surgical lighting, intensive care support systems, and other essential medical equipment, ‘which may be of great use in quickly scaling ITU and critical care services’. The medical technology specialist has recently sourced ventilators from British company, Meditech, for the NHS Nightingale


Hospital North West in Manchester, and supplied examination lights suitable for tracheotomy to the NHS Louisa Jordan temporary emergency hospital at Glasgow’s SEC Centre. It has also offered advice to Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Leeds University on increasing the distribution of oxygen and medical air, and is manufacturing parts for the UK ventilator programme – including for the new Mercedes-UCL CPAP ventilator and existing British-made machines.


Brandon Medical’s team of engineers is available to help find the equipment healthcare customers need, and to install and service it in hospitals across the UK, observing PHE and WHO


COVID-19 guidance. This includes: n Medical lights for intubating patients and tracheotomy.


n Medical gas terminal units for oxygen and medical air pipelines for larger scale distribution.


n ICU and operating theatre pendants.


n Medical point-of-care computers. n Medical IT systems – unearthed power supplies and uninterruptible power supplies for group 2 locations for ICU and theatres.


n Medical video and information systems that collect data and video streams and distribute them to the desired location. n Ultraclean ventilation ceilings and clean air systems.


n Operating theatre lights, tables, and touchscreen digital control systems. Brandon Medical is ‘committed to delivering the highest levels of service and supporting healthcare professionals at this very challenging time’. Brandon Medical


Elmfield Rd, Morley, Leeds LS27 0EL T: 0113 277 7393


E: laura.morgan@brandon-medical.com www.brandon-medical.com


As one would expect of the leading professional institute for this key sector, IHEEM has led by establishing a dedicated resource on its website via which offers of help from suppliers and technology providers can be rapidly channelled to the central Estates & Facilities team at NHS I&E, and equally, calls for particular expertise disseminated to the membership. The Institute has also linked with the IFHE-EU group to publish a bi-monthly newsletter where lessons on how estates and facilities professionals globally have addressed particular coronavirus-related challenges can be shared.


In addition, the sector has pulled together highly effectively to create a number of temporary emergency treatment facilities across the UK in timescales many would have thought unachievable. How long the current lockdown will continue, and when life will return to ‘normal’, is unknown, but the healthcare engineering and estate management profession, and the associated supply chain, should be proud of their efforts in supporting the medical community in the face of this unprecedented healthcare emergency.


Jonathan Baillie I Editor jonathanbaillie@stepcomms.com


May 2020 Health Estate Journal 5


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